First Flight of a V-1 (jet-powered, 1 ton of TNT, 250 km range, 700 km/h); designed by Robert Lusser of Gerhard Fieseler Flugzeugbau, 26,000 of which were built by the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Segelflug center; the V-1 was powered by an Argus Ar104 pulsejet designed in 1934 by Paul Schmidt; the rocket’s structure was made of wood.
